Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:52:10 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: ant script annoyances Message-ID: <20030909215210.GA5404@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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Hi,
I'd like to make a plea to remove the following bits from the "ant"
script of the port:
# FreeBSD-specific: Add the .jar files from ${PREFIX}/share/java/classes
for JAR_FILE in "/usr/local/share/java/classes"/*.jar; do
# If the directory is empty, then the input string is returned
if [ -f "${JAR_FILE}" ]; then
if [ -z "${LOCALCLASSPATH}" ]; then
LOCALCLASSPATH="${JAR_FILE}"
else
LOCALCLASSPATH="${JAR_FILE}":"${LOCALCLASSPATH}"
fi
fi
done
I can't see the rationale for the addition of the jar files; any
decent project that reference the common jar files would make a copy
of it in the project's supplementary lib directory for maximum
portability. The adverse effects of adding this are:
1. it pollutes the environment.
2. build.xml files fails in subtle ways on FreeBSD compared
to other Java platforms (eg: xdoclet task definition
with classpathref). This means I can't just move project from
other systems to FreeBSD simply, and vice versa.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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